[Coco] Using that 16/32/64 MB RamDrive.

Theodore Evans (Alex) alxevans at concentric.net
Sat Feb 7 15:44:19 EST 2004


On Feb 5, 2004, at 11:22 PM, Robert Gault wrote:

> Paul T. Barton wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>> I get $03E000 good sectors for a full
>> ~62mb ramdisk. For a size of
>> ($3E000 * 256) 65,011,712 bytes.
>
> PS. I think that is what you should see. 2^25=33,554,432 and 2^26 = 
> 67,108,864 so the power of 2 closest to 64Meg is really 67Meg. If that 
> is not the size of the Nocan64 let me know.

I think his figures were accurate.  64M is $4000000 bytes or $40000 
sectors, but he didn't use the whole 64M for a ram disk, but rather 
$2000 (8192) sectors short of that or exactly 62M.  Presumably the 
other 2M is being used for the main memory of OS-9.




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